The Modern Acre

Jacob Muise is the Founder and CEO of Maui Nui Venison. Their venison comes from Axis deer, a non-native species to Hawaiʻi. Numerous and free-roaming, these deer are truly wild until the moment they humanely harvest them using 100% stress-free methods. Because their deer are wild instead of being raised for food, they enjoy a natural varied diet, which means their meat is higher in nutrients and noticeably more delicious. Connect with Maui Nui Venison Website | Nutrient Density Study

This month, Tim and Tyler talk with Ariel about her latest Topsoil edition - "We didn't produce this much only to produce this much: A framework for understanding yield in agriculture." Ariel Patton is the creator of Topsoil, a newsletter bringing you monthly frameworks to help make sense of agriculture, at just the right depth. Ariel has focused her career on driving digital transformation of agriculture to help farmers manage their businesses more profitably and sustainably at Monsanto, Granular, Corteva and currently, Mineral. Connect with Ariel Topsoil Newsletter | LinkedIn

Carson Britz is the Sr. Manager of Sustainable Ag at Nutrien Ag Solutions. Nutrien Ag Solutions is a subsidiary of Nutrien Ltd., a leading global agricultural solutions provider. The company was formed in 2018 as a result of a merger between Agrium Inc. and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. Nutrien Ag Solutions is primarily focused on providing agricultural inputs and services to farmers, helping them achieve higher crop yields and better farm productivity. Nutrien Ag Solutions operates a vast retail network, offering a wide range of products and services. With a strong presence in North America, Australia, and South America, Nutrien Ag Solutions is committed to providing innovative and sustainable solutions that help farmers meet the increasing global demand for food while minimizing the environmental impact of agricultural practices. Connect with Nutrien Website | LinkedIn

Paul Pittman is the founder and executive chairman of Farmland Partners, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that purchases, leases, and manages high-quality farmland throughout North America. Paul grew up in a farm family and has been buying and operating farms since the mid-1990s. Many of his farmland assets in Illinois, Nebraska, and Colorado were contributed to Farmland Partners Inc. at the time of its initial public offering in 2014. Paul has served as the company’s Chairman since that time, and he remains one of its largest shareholders. He was the company’s CEO until February 2023. Before devoting full attention to his farming and farmland ownership businesses, Paul was the CFO of Jazz Technologies, a publicly traded semiconductor foundry. Prior, he started TheJobsite.com, which merged into HomeSphere, an enterprise software company where Paul served as President. Paul has worked as an investment banker in London, New York, and San Francisco, specializing in mergers and acquisitions with Merrill Lynch, Wasserstein Perella & Co, and ThinkEquity. He began his career as an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell.  Connect with Farmland Partners Website | LinkedIn

Jessie Deelo founded Deelo Consulting Services to design strategies for agricultural systems change. Building off her career as a farmer, Extension specialist and industry consultant, she integrates expertise in regenerative agriculture, corporate impact programs, food systems and strategy. Through analysis of landscape, markets, cultures and stakeholders, Jessie develops markets for place-based regenerative agriculture. In commodity markets, she executes strategic solutions for climate-smart sourcing and low-carbon ingredient supply chains. Jessie has sector expertise in North American dairy, grains and oilseeds, and organic and regenerative agriculture. She also has experiential knowledge of small- to mid-scale organic horticultural production. Her graduate school training in International Agricultural Development from the University of California-Davis shapes her approach to supply chain sustainability for global markets. Connect with Jessie Website

Niall Haughey is the Founder of Graze and writer of the Agri Fintech Newsletter covering the category globally. Niall specialized in Financial Services at Deloitte before founding an SME Payments business and performing advisory work for clients including Royal Bank of Scotland, Investec, UBS, Centrica and others. Since 2015, Niall has focused on fintech product design and development for the Food and Agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa, including developing Input Finance, Warehouse Receipt Finance for grains and Pay-As-You-Go Asset Finance structures. With Graze, Niall wants to utilize his combined expertise of conventional Financial Services and cutting edge Agri Fintech to design modern financial services for global food systems. Connect with Niall Website | Newsletter

Bailey Stockdale is the founder & CEO of Leaf, food and agriculture’s data infrastructure company. Bailey has worked with food and agriculture technology since 2014 as a software developer, entrepreneur, and EIR at SP Ventures’ AgTech fund. Bailey is passionate about empowering developers that are solving farming, health, and sustainability challenges through food and agriculture technology. With Leaf, he contributes to broadening industry access and building the tools that food and agriculture technology needs to scale. Leaf provides farm data infrastructure similar to Plaid in finance, Twilio in communications, or Stipe in payments. Connect with Leaf Website | Twitter

Craig Rupp is the CEO and Founder of Sabanto, a Farming-as-a-Service company that provides total turn-key agriculture services using our supervised autonomous equipment platform. Connect with Sabanto Website | Twitter

Ariel Patton, creator of the insightful Topsoil newsletter, dives into the financial intricacies farmers face today. She discusses how essential understanding profit and cash flow is for sustaining agricultural businesses. The conversation touches on the rise of mega farms versus micro farms, and innovative models like Singing Frogs Farm that help farmers transform into price makers. Ariel highlights the potential of new income avenues like carbon credits, emphasizing optimism in reimagining farming for improved profitability and sustainability.

Grant Jones is the Co-Founder and Chief Agricultural Officer at Mt. Joy, a fast casual restaurant on a mission to accelerate global adoption of regenerative agricultural practices. Connect with Mt. Joy Website | Instagram